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Shrike can be hurt by bullets and everything else. However shrikes also have a known bug that's listed all over the hirez forums. Where they will often not take damage from explosives, spinfusors, grenades, etc...they bounce off, pass through...arx buster gets stuck on it but never explodes. So they are way more effective because they simply don't take damage when they should. Very weird to steer them and you have to kind of get less panicked by missile lock on to be effective. It's like a third sense, some guys seem to know exactly where those missiles are and go over a hill at the last possible second.
Tanks, you basically can't avoid anything. The thing is too slow to climb hills so you have to get up on a hill and go down quickly when the shitstorm of people finally come to kill you. Barrel moves very slowly and can't look up so once they get on to of you....you're usually dead. I find the aiming on this to be a little weird. Sometimes when you think will miss hits, and what you think should hit misses. It's like the projectile itself is kind of misrepresented graphically.
Grav cycle is just kind of fun. You'll find that you get a lot of people trying to kill you and you can distract a lot of people in pubs by just making runs through their base and shooting in their general direction. Hitting people with the bike is pretty damn hard compared to shrike, it's pretty hard to steer on hillsides because it tends to drift and each bump messes up your steering.
Now with all of that said. The big factor that keeps people from playing with vehicles? Is there is or was a bug where people who used vehicles a lot, despite their score got HORRIBLE XP rewards. Like a 10k score without vehicles is anywhere from two to four times as much as with vehicles. I have seen this happen to myself more than once, 5k one round no vehicle use, next round even more score and way less xp despite winning both rounds. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens a lot to make it really f-in annoying. Because it's a challenge to get kills with vehicles at times and you end up with a crap reward as a result...even if you use it for the last little bit of the round.
This why I mainly stopped using vehicles, XP reward would bottom out enough that I just decided it wasn't worth the time spent. I'll wait until XP isn't as critical later when Im mostly done with unlocks.
Tanks, you basically can't avoid anything. The thing is too slow to climb hills so you have to get up on a hill and go down quickly when the shitstorm of people finally come to kill you. Barrel moves very slowly and can't look up so once they get on to of you....you're usually dead. I find the aiming on this to be a little weird. Sometimes when you think will miss hits, and what you think should hit misses. It's like the projectile itself is kind of misrepresented graphically.
Grav cycle is just kind of fun. You'll find that you get a lot of people trying to kill you and you can distract a lot of people in pubs by just making runs through their base and shooting in their general direction. Hitting people with the bike is pretty damn hard compared to shrike, it's pretty hard to steer on hillsides because it tends to drift and each bump messes up your steering.
Now with all of that said. The big factor that keeps people from playing with vehicles? Is there is or was a bug where people who used vehicles a lot, despite their score got HORRIBLE XP rewards. Like a 10k score without vehicles is anywhere from two to four times as much as with vehicles. I have seen this happen to myself more than once, 5k one round no vehicle use, next round even more score and way less xp despite winning both rounds. It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens a lot to make it really f-in annoying. Because it's a challenge to get kills with vehicles at times and you end up with a crap reward as a result...even if you use it for the last little bit of the round.
This why I mainly stopped using vehicles, XP reward would bottom out enough that I just decided it wasn't worth the time spent. I'll wait until XP isn't as critical later when Im mostly done with unlocks.
